It’s a special day around the world, as America gets ready to welcome their 44th President, Barack Obama. So that meant that CC Chapman and I knew this was going to be a very special episode of our joint show Accident Mash.

Recorded yesterday (Martin Luther King day), and aired today means there’s a lot of hope and optimism in the air, not that there isn’t when CC and I get together to record a joint show of TPN Rock and Accident Hash. This is close to an hour and a half, there’s a lot more talking between the tracks, and the tracks are some of the best we can both find.

Unrehearsed, recorded as live in one take, this is media in the raw, and all the better for it… just as the world feels a bit better today anyway.

Rock It Steady, by Kill Van Kull (www.killvankull.com).
Dream in Colour, by Black Lab (www.blacklabworld.com).
Obama’s Scottish Song, by Alan Scot (Find the video on YouTube, and this is the subtitled version so you can sing along).
by Shady, by Rayko KRB (www.raykokrb.com).
Bring Me Safely Down, by The Matthew Show (www.thematthewshow.com).
Ursula Major, Ursula Minor, by Bleu (www.bleutopia.com).
Tilzing the Walda, by The Martians (www.the-martians.co.uk).
Better Day, by Now is Now (www.nowisnow.com).

You can find Accident Hash at www.accidenthash.com and CC Chapman’s blog at www.cc-chapman.com. TPN Rock is, err, here (or www.tpnrock.com) and my blog is www.ewanspence.com.

[Did you take pictures, audio or video of the event? If so, please get in touch with Ewan or CC regarding the Charity Christmas DVD edition of the Mash...]

Introduced by Linda Mills, it’s “The Dave Slusher Memorial Podcast,” with (in alphabetical order)…

Matthew Ebel
Jimmy Golding
Brother Love
Slau
Geoff Smith
Whitney Steele

…as for the songs, if we didn’t know the playlist when we started, then neither will you. Just kick back and let the good times roll.

It all started at a remarkably late hour on the last night of the Portable and New Media 2007, in the bar of the Ontario Marriot, with Linda Mills asking us why CC and I hadn’t done one of the most irregular podcast music shows of all time, The TPN Rock / Accident Hash joint show, Accident Mash. In the fifteen or so months its been running, we’ve done… three. Neither of us had even considered setting up a time to do one, given the hectic nature of the Expo and the sheer volume of people to talk to.

But we both got a glint in our eyes, stared at each other over the bar, and proclaimed “we can do this!”

Just five minutes later and we’ve rounded up some of the leading podsafe music artists in the world, MacGyvered together a twin-track mixing desk with some tie pins, cables, stub mics, headphone splitters and my trusty minidisc recorder – and then rather loudly let everyone know that we’d be recording, the artists would be singing, and everyone was invited to where else but the home of all the improv events at the PME… poolside at the Marriot.

There’s a lot of crowd noise in this one – not surprising with such a fantastic and appreciative audience (thank you EVERYONE who was there, and to everyone who missed it, you’re going to be kicking yourself for the rest of your life…). With the local constabulary lurking in the background watching the noise levels, half the hosting duties were taken up by crowd control and keeping the volume down. But hey, this is as live, as raw, and as honest a gig as you are ever going to find. People who love music playing, listening, talking, and participating.

We’ve got accapella; we’ve got beat boxing; we’ve got accoustic; we’ve got group jamming; but what else would you expect from some of the leading independent musicans? We’ve got crowd participation; we’ve got old and new friends in the crowd; we’re on a runaway train where the hosts honestly have no idea what’s happening in the next thirty seconds, let alone for the rest of the show.

Folks, it was an honour to capture all your joy and enthusiam in what Eric Rice named “The Accident Ssssh.” I hope you’ll listen back with fond memories of friendship, community and the pioneer spirit that really does sum up what podcasting is and how it can change the world. And thanks to podcasting, this special recording session is here for us all to share with the rest of the world.

Well, almost the full session – we’ve had to trim out the non-podsafe music that we played as we can’t ‘publish’ that through our RSS Feeds; but don’t fret. While we can’t get clearance to send them down the internet, what CC and I are investigating (with help from Brian Ibbot) is a Christmas DVD of Accident Mash#4 for charity, with the raw and edited audio, and all the video and pictures everyone took of the event. That’s actually easier to sort out than a podcast appearance (insert rolled eyes here).

If you’ve got media, or just want on the list for “I’d love a copy of the DVD” so we can get some numbers, please get in touch.

Love, Light, Peace and be wild.

– Ewan and CC

We also mention…
Linda Mills ((Podcast User Magazine), Dave Slusher (Evil Genius Chronicles), Eric Rice (Saijo City and various worlds and meta spaces), Bill Palmer (iProng), Tim Street (The French Maids), and a bundle of others I’ve probably forgotten. Leave a coment and we’ll sort that out.

What do you mean podcasts should never ever be more than thirty minutes long? Brace yourself, you know what’s coming. It’s the third Accident Mash!!! Yes it’s time for TPN Rock to crash together with Accident Hash as CC Chapman and myself (Ewan Spence) take a wander around the world of pod safe music, the recent PodcastCon 2006 in London (which CC flew over from Boston to attend), and hit on pretty much anything that comes up in conversation.

So if you can cope with a longer than normal show (over an hour and a half), get ready to discover such delights as the Crayonistas, 4 disc DVD special editions, CC and I’s plans for SXSW, a little festive Christmas music (it is the 1st of Deember after all), the Speaking English podcast, Laura on Top of the Pods, and telsa coil based shocking dildos…

…so not exactly worksafe this one. But it’s a blast. Hope you all enjoy it – if nothing else CC and I were on cloud nine for the recording.

Brink, by Splitsville (www.splitsville.com)
Do I, by Magdalene (Magdalene at Pure Volume)
Did We Make It, by Casey Desmon (www.caseydesmond.com)
I Wanna Change, The Pony Girls (The Pony Girls on Podsafe Audio)
You Can’t Have Fashion Without Victims, Darling, by Break The Omerta (Break The Omerta at MySpace)
Ecstacy, by Black Lab (www.blacklabworld.com)
Free, by Boswalos (www.boswalos.com)
Cheesy Christmas, by The Martians (www.the-martians.co.uk)
Just Stockings On, by Munk (www.waxboy.com)
New Year’s Day, by The Singles (The Singles at Garageband)

I promised you all a TPN Rock show from the Portable Media and Podcast Expo to remember, and I’m pretty sure this is going to deliver. Welcome, once more, CC Chapman (Accident Hash) for another dose of podcast mashup mayhem. Yes it’s the second TPN Rock’s Accident Mash!

As you may recall, at the last Podcast conference where CC and I just happened to meet up at, we recorded a show called the TPN Rock Accident Mash, where we took our respective shows, slammed them together through music choices (and two hosts) and generally had a ball. The show had enough of a buzz that I thought it was close to a ‘home run’ and all the comments and emails seem to bear that out. How could we not do it again?

Well, circumstances did their best to stop another potential home run. If you want to find out what happened to stop us, how we overcame (and some kick ass tunes), then you need some Mash.

People Everywhere, by Brother Love (www.brotherloverocks.com)
Maybe, by ADD (ADD on MySpace their main website is being updated)
Superhero (I Fall Away), by Miggs (www.miggsband.com)
No Use Denying, by The Cool Waters Band (www.coolwatersband.com)
Crash and Burn, by Sara Hawley and The Bang Bang Club (www.thebangbangclub.com)
Rebirth, by The Killing (The Killing on Podsafe Audio)
Bittersweet Funeral (Remix), by Miles Partridge (www.milespartridge.com)
Day One, by Now is Now (www.nowisnow.com)
What’s Your Favourite Kind of Torture?, by The Martians (www.the-martians.co.uk)

We also mention in the show…

iProng Radio, The Portable Media and Podcast Expo, Mark Hunter, Lynette Radio, Total Podcastrophe, Podcast User Magazine, Marcus Couch, Dave Slusher, Gigavox & The Levelator, Missing Alert, A Buddhist Podcast and Tom Reynolds.

Link: TPN Rock / Accident Hash Promo (50 Sec, 770K mp3)

What a great time in Cologne at the Medienforum’s Podcastday2006. And on top of all that, TPN Rock was recorded alongside C.C. Chapman’s Accident Hash – and we’re sure it’s one of the first Podcast Mashups. It’s rock Jim, but not as you know it… Enjoy (and don’t tell Cameron).

Live or Die, by De La Vega (www.dlvmusic.com)
The Way Of The World, by The Go Station (www.thegostation.com)
Joanne, by Waltham (www.walthamtheband.com)
Safe as Houses, by Sooth (Sooth on Myspace)
When The Revolution Comes, by Sunspot (www.sunspotmusic.com)
Run and Hide (Live), by Barry Price (www.barrypricemusic.co.uk)
Ewan’s Pick of the Pods Mix
Soulless, by Marwood (www.marwoodmusic.com)
So Fragile, by Four Past Midnight (www.4pastmidnight.co.uk)
Dumb Ass, by Jester (Jester on Myspace)

The Accident Hash Feed
The TPN Rock Feed

The Accident Hash Summer Speedtrap #2 (Accident Hash #140)
TPN Rock #2005 (The Best of The Best from The First Year).

We also gave shout outs to The Podcast Network, Podshow, Hipcast, Doug Kaye at The Conversations Network, Dan Klass and Old Wave Radio, The Podsafe Music Network, Myspace, Pure Volume, BBC Radio 5,